Albert haeley stoeey



(No Model.)

A. H. STORBY.

COMBINED P10K AND SHOVEL.

Patented June 21, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ALBERT HARLEY STOREY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

COMBINED PICK ANDv snovel..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.365,208, dated June 21, 1887.

Application filed January 5,1887. Serial No. 223,43?.

(No model.) Patented in France December Q1, 1886, No.18(l,415; in

Belgium December 24, 1896, No. 75,713; in Canada January 10, 1887, No. -35311, and 1n Italy January 20, 18.47, No. 21,116.

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Be itk nown that I, ALBERT HARLEY S'roREY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of London, England, have invented an Improved Combined Pick and Shovel, (for which I have obtained French Patent No. 180,415, December 21, 1886; Belgian Patent No. 75,713, December 24, 1886; Canadian Patent No. 25,814, January 19, 1887, and Italian Patent No. 21,116, January 20, 1887,) of which the Afollowing is a specication.

A great evil is experienced in such tools as have a combined pick and shovel pivoted on the end of a handle-shaft in that a ring is used to secure the combined pick and shovel in its required positions, and this ri ng'is and always will be either tight, and therefore difficult to move and liable toj am, or elseloose, and therefore liable to slip away from its required positions, thereby temporarily rendering the tool useless.

Now, the object of this invention is to remedy this evil by so iltting the combined pick and shovel on the end of the handle-shaft that the same can easily and quickly be firmly secured in its required positions without any ring. I carry out this object by so forming and constructing the end of the handle-shaft, or a cap or cheeks thereon, that when the eyesocket or head in the shaft between the combined pick and shovel is placed round the same the combined piek and shovel is con neeted to and cannot fall away from the handle-shaft, even though there is no pivot-pin, and the combined pick and shovel can be secured in its required positions by a pivoted catch engaging certain parts ot the end of the handle-shaft, or the cap or cheeks thereon, as is hereinafter more particularly described.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown a most convenient form and style of tool.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete tool when ready to be used as a piek, and Fig. 2 is a plan thereof. Fig. 3 is a front elevation, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation, ofthe complete tool when ready to be used as a spade or shovel. Fig. 5 is a side elevation, and Fig. 6 is a plan, of the eyetsocket or head of the combined pick and shovel.- Figs. 7 are side and end elevations of the end of the handle-shaft. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are on an enlarged scale.

On the end of any suitable handleshaft, A, I tit, preferably, a metal or other cap, B, at the top of the front 'edge of which is formed a projection, O, and a shoulder, D, is formed on the rear edge of this cap B, to correspond therewitlnin man ne 'asishereinatter explai ned. The bottom E of the front edge of the cap B projects somewhat beyond the handleshaFtA, and a shoulder, F, is formed on the top of the cap B, to correspond therewith, in manner as is hereinafter explained.

The combined pick and shovel is formed on and with or may be secured to one and the same shaft, wherein, between the pick and the shovel, is made the usual eye-socket or head, G, which can fit over the cap B on the end ot' the handleshalt A. This socket or head G is made of such a size, and preferably of such a shape, as is shown, as to lit somewhat tightly on the cap B in the two required positionsnamely, from the bottom E to the top in front of the shoulder F, and from a small recess nnder the projection C to the rear edge above the shoulder D.

Between the eye-socket or head G and the blade ofthe shovel is eccentrically pivoted on the shalt a block, I-I, to act as a catch, provided with a suitable handle or lever, preferA ably so bent, as shown, as to allow the same to be conveniently handled.

Vhen the eye-socket or head G ot the combined pick and shovel is duly placed on and round the cap B, which cap B 1is then in any usual or convenient manner fitted on and nrnily secured to the end of the handle-shaft A, the combined pick and shovel cannot fall away from the handle-shaft, as the end of the projection C is made broader than the eyesocket or head G, while at the same time the shoulder D prevents it falling down the han dle-shaft A, and thus the two parts of this tool are securely connected together' without any pivot-pin, and cannot be separated until the cap B is taken off the end ofthe handle-shaft A. The combined pick and shovel can then be turned up at right angles, or thereabout, to the line of the handlesshaft, as shown in Figs. l and 2, unt-il that end of the eyesocket or head G thatis nearest to the pick is under and bears against the broad projection C, when the rear edge ofthe cap B, which is slightly bev- TOO eled, as shown, will cause this end aforesaid of the eye-socket or head G to enter the recess under the projection C, and that end of the eye-socket or head G that is nearest to the shovel bears against the top of the shoulder D, when the catch H is turned and engages under the shoulder D, and the combined piek and shovel is very firmly secured in this position, and the tool can be used as a pick; The catch II can then be turned back againinto the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 6, and the plek can be drawndown against the handleshaft, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, until that end of the socket or head G that is nearest to the shovel bears against the broad projection C, and that end of the socket or -head G that is nearest to the piek can'pass under the pro- Jeeting bottom E of the front edge of the cap B, when the catch II is turned and engages the shoulder F, and the combined piek and shovel is very firmly secured in this position,

and the tool can be used as a spade or shovel.

To prevent the catch I-I being turned by aecident or misadventure, or Without some little expenditure 'of force, I preferably make a flange, K, across the top edge of the blade of the shovel, and the catch I-I is so formed and with sueh angular and other parts as to bear against this ila-nge K, and cause the same to' aet asa spring, which' is bent and thereby put l in tension as andwhen the catch I-I is being turned; and to strengthen this flange K, I can very conveniently secure thereon a strip of Inetal, as shown, to take the wear and tear off the same.

'I consider that the exact shapes and proportions of the several parts of this-tool, as shown in the drawings, are the best and most con- Venient; but when, for any cause, it is desirable so to do I may alter the saine as I may prefer. The cap, also, on the handle-shaft may be formed by two metal or other plates or cheeks secured on the end of the handleshaft; or the end of the handle-shaft itself may be formed vin a similar manner, and the projections and shoulders may, if required, be attached thereto instead of being formed With the saine.

I claim as my inventionl. A handle-shaft having on its end projeetons Gand Ev and shoulders D and F, in combination with the head of a combined pick and shovel, substantially as set forth'.

2. A handle-shaft having on its end projections C and E and shoulders D and F, in combination with the head of a combined piek and shovel, and a catch, II, therefor, substantially as set forth.

.3. The combination of the handle shaft wit a combined pick and shovel, having a ilauge, K, and a pivoted catch, H, substantially as set forth.

In testimony wliereofI have signed my name y to this specification in the presence of two subF scribing` witnesses.

ALBERT HARLEY. STOREY.

Witnesses:

JAs. HART, T. SM 1TH. 

